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Note: Since the original posting of this article, learned that Deviantart is a well hated website among many artists on the net. I guess from a non artist perspective, it’s great… but as an artist, apparently not…
I discovered deviantart.com a few months ago… It has since become the most valuable website I’ve ever come across. It is THE place to find artists. Over the last few months I’ve worked with artists for pretty much every project that I am working on right now. A bunch of concept design artists for Of8, a new logo for kicksandsnares.com (it’s not up on the site yet), ads for my store & I even hired someone to do a sexy piece of Naruto fan art for my office. It’s replaced youtube as my #1 wasting time site, even though I’m never really wasting time on it. Three cheers for deviantart.com!
You can find really good pieces on DA, but it is a real pain to search for them in a flood of manga and other shit made by teenagers.
DA doesn’t even come close to such sites as Conceptart.org, CGsociety or Coroflot.
Hmmm… didnt know about CGS and Coroloft… ABout to check them out now.
Hi, it’s me again
May I suggest a few more sites: CGhub, ConceptartWorld, 2dgeek, also Behance and Carbonmade.
If you like concept art you can look at Ballistic Publishing’s and Designstudiopress’ books.
Check these sites and say goodbye to social life! Hahaha!
Thanks a lot man. I think I figured out why I like DA so much. The structure of the site is pretty much perfect for finding new artists you will like. They have a real search engine, then when you find artists you like, you can see what their favorite pieces are. Usually good artists have good taste, so you can chain a lot of cool stuff together. Although I like a lot of Ca.org artists, that thumbnail system is absolutely horrible
Thanks for the new links. I’ll definitely check them out.
Hi there, mr. Bond!
Following this you posted at conceptart.org in search for Japanese-ish gibberish alphabets and clockwork robot designs respectively. I think I am up to taking on both these tasks at a low price, and would be interested to learn more about your project (given you’re still doing it?).
I sketch quickly, even occasionally in real time over Skype. I am 22, male, and Norwegian – but I have lived in England, and speak the language fluently. I have worked with a local advertising agency, illustrating for about half a year, and will be taking a bachelor in art direction and illustration come fall.
Samples of my work are available on hakonmarcus.com/portfolio and revesvans.deviantart.com tying nicely in with the theme of this post.
Håkon